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BOOK AUCTION - JESUITS. Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de la Maison professe des ci-devant soi-disans Jesuites. Paris, Pissot & Gogue, 1763. 8vo, pp. xx (i.e. xxiv), [2], 448, 59; [8]; small faint ink spot to title, some offsetting from turn-ins; contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece to spine; with armorial supra libros of Guillaume-Gabriel Pavée de Vendeuvre; extremities a little rubbed, and some surface wear to foot of upper joint; a very nice, tight copy.
First and only edition of this important sale catalogue of one of the most comprehensive Jesuit libraries in France. The sale was forced by the expulsion of the Jesuits from France in 1764. The entire library of the Maison Professe des Jesuites of Paris, founded in 1580 was offered for sale. It contained many ‘named’ donations, the most important of which was that of the scholar and bishop of Avranches Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Huet, whose scholarship was very well-known, had edited the famous Delphin series of the Latin classics in about sixty volumes. He donated his important library of books and manuscripts to this Jesuit house upon his death. Huet’s books were withdrawn before the sale due to the terms of his donation and were given by his heir to the Royal Library in 1765. The extensive Jesuit library had recorded 30,000 volumes in 1754, this auction catalogue lists 7252 lots, and includes the withdrawn Huet collection. It provides the best idea of the contents of Huet’s rich collection. The auction was originally scheduled for December 1763, a contemporary manuscript note on the title page indicates 30 April to 9 June 1764 as the sale date, Blogie gives it as 25 June to 3 July. The 59 page author index at the end provides a comprehensive view of the collection. This copy has the two unnumbered pages following the prelims (’Livres en Feuilles’), 59-page author index, and another 8 pages of the order of the sale. A few copies apparently have another six leaves listing the withdrawn books, which is not present here. See Blogie II, 9 (1765); Franklin, Les Anciennes Bibliothèques de Paris, pp. 269-77; Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions…1643-1830, 181; Peignot, p. 106; Taylor, Book Catalogues, p. 64.
1500,- EUR
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Sachgebiete: Bibliographie , Jesuiten, Religion
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